What exactly is yogurt?
The process of making yogurt (also spelled yoghurt or yoghourt) involves adding bacteria culture directly to milk. Yogurt makers, like FlavorMine, add live, active cultures to milk to make yogurt. These cultures multiply at carefully controlled temperatures and cause milk to ferment. During the fermentation process, the cultures create the enzyme lactase, which changes lactose (milk sugar) into lactic acid. Lactic acid then causes the fluid milk to thicken resulting in yogurt. People all over the world have eaten yogurt for thousands of years. Today, yogurt is primarily made with cows milk in the United States, but around the world, it is also made with the milk of goats, sheep, buffalo, and even camels.
